Recording-desk.



PATENTED MAY 30, 190.6.

A. THIELEKE.

RECORDING DESK.

APPLIOATIQN FILED JULY 25.1904

Patented May 30, 1905.

PATENT EErcE.

AUGUST THIELEKE, OF TEMPLETON, IOVA.

RECORDING-DESK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,987, dated May 30, 1905.

Application filed JulyZ, V1904:. Serial No. 218.179.

Be it known that I, AUGUST THIELEKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Templeton, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Recording-Desks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a desk which is especiall y adapted for use by creameries in keeping accounts of the milk received, the test percentage of butter fats contained therein, the amount of butter sold to customers of the Creamery, and other data desired in such connection.

The object of the invention is to provide a device that will take the place of the mille sheets commonly used at many creameries, and which are usually hung upon the wall or are placed on the top of an ordinary desk, and which, because of the constant handling, become more or less soiled and the entries blurred.

While I have shown my invention in connection with a special form of recording-sheet, it will be apparent that other forms of sheets may be used therewithwith equal facility, and 1 therefore do not wish to be limited in my patent to any specific form of recording-sheet.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, I have shown a preferred adaptation of my invention in the following views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. Q is a fragmentary detail,on an enlarged scale,show ing the name-plate and the registering opening in the top of the desk. Fig. 3 is a crosssection showing the arrangement of the recording-sheet and its supporting-rollers, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4C 4: of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings in detail, A represents a rectangular box, which is adapted to be placed on top of the-desk or which may, if desired,be provided with suitable legs. This desk is provided along one side with a hinged door ct of any suitable construction and has secured thereto pieces a o8 a", which, with doors to be described, form the top of the box. Hinged to the top-piece a5 is a door a2, and hinged to the piece a9 is a second door a3. Se-

cured to the upper side of the door a2 is a frame b2, between which and the door is inserted a card b, on which is-printed or inscribed the names 0f the customers who furnish milk to the creamery, said names being preferably arranged as indicated in Fig. 2. Over the card is placed a glass to protect the card. Between the free edge of the door a2 and the opposite edge of the top-piece as is left a space, as a, at which the recording-sheet E is exposed for insertion of the figures or other data of which it is desired to keep a record. A similar frame and card are attached to the hinged door CL3, and corresponding space a7 is left between the edge of the door a3 and the opposite edge of the top-piece a5.

Suitably journaled in slots Z3 in the opposite ends of the box are spindles d d', on which are respectively secured rollers c c. which are adapted to have wound thereon and unwound therefrom the recording or milk sheet E. Also suitably journaled in the ends of the box, at a point between and below the journalbearings of the rollers c c, is the spindle f of a tension-roller f', (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) which is adapted to have pass around one side thereofl the recording-sheet E. Suitably mounted in the ends of the box and just below the top are small rollers 02 c3 cL 05, which have the recording-sheet pass thereover, as shown in Fig. 3, and serve to carry the sheet in a horizontal plane. Secured below the openings a and a7 are supporting-plates g g, respectively, which rest snugly under the recording-sheet E and are adapted to support the latter so as to provide an unyielding writing-surface.

Secured to the spindles d CZ of the rollers c c are levers /L L, which are pivoted on the outside of the end of the box and have their lower ends connected by a spring 7L', the normal tension of which is exerted. to spread apart the upper ends of said levers, whereby said spindles will be pushed toward the sides of the box, and thus facilitate the binding of the recording-sheet on the several rollers over which it is passed. There is mounted on the end 0f each spindle l CZ/ cranks 7a2, which provide for the turning of the rollers ce. so that the recording-sheet may be unwound from one of said rollers and onto the other, as may be desired in the use of the device. The recording-sheet E is printed and inscribed with suitable words or characters to indicate the insertion of the test of the milk, the number of pounds delivered on each day of the month, the number of pounds of butter purchased, and also ruled with columns which register with the respective names onl the cards Z2', so that the entries will be directly under the names.

In use a recording-sheet for a months entries will be wound on the roller c, will be passed over the supporting rollers c2 c3, around the under side of the tension-roller f', over the rollers 04 05, and suitably secured to the roller c'. As the entries are made on the recording-sheet in the spaces a o7 the crank on the spindle 0X/ is turned, thus winding the recording-sheet around the cylinder c' until the record of the milk received is complete,v and the sheet will be wound back again on the roller o, during which entries as to the butter purchased will be made opposite the respective parties names. When the sheet for one month is full, it will be removed through the door d and used in making up the statements or bills customary between the Creamery and its patrons.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device of the character described, a box having a door at one side and provided with longitudinal openings in its top, nameplates secured to the top adjacent to such openings, rollers journaled in the ends of the box, a recording-sheet adapted to be wound on said rollers and unwound therefrom, other rollers suitably journaled in the box and adapted to support the recording-sheet just below the longitudinal openings, and means for operating the first-named rollers.

2. In a device of the character described, a box provided with longitudinal openings in its top and name-plates secured adjacent to such openings, rollers journaled in the ends of the box, a recording-sheet adapted to be wound on said rollers and unwound therefrom, means for supporting the recordingsheet just below the longitudinal openings, a tension-roller journaled in the ends of the box, and means for operating the rst-named rollers.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence of two witnesses. l

AUGUST THIELEKE.

Witnesses:

F. M. WILSON, J. L. WALDMAN. 

